My Life as a Bat
Authored by Alexsonda Evans
English
9th - 12th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on Margaret Atwood's short story "My Life as a Bat," a sophisticated piece of contemporary literature that explores themes of reincarnation, identity, and human-animal relationships through the perspective of a narrator who believes they were a bat in a previous life. The content is appropriate for grades 9-12, as evidenced by the complex literary analysis required, including interpretation of figurative language, structural analysis, thematic understanding, and close reading of textual evidence. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to understand Atwood's unconventional narrative structure, which resembles an argumentative essay rather than a traditional story format. They must demonstrate advanced analytical thinking to interpret the narrator's philosophical reflections on reincarnation, identify literary devices such as similes and metaphors, and understand the implied conflict between human misconceptions about bats versus the narrator's lived experience as one. The quiz requires students to synthesize information across multiple sections of the text and make inferences about character motivation, thematic meaning, and authorial purpose. Created by Alexsonda Evans, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 9-12. This comprehensive assessment serves multiple instructional purposes in the high school English classroom, functioning effectively as a summative assessment following close reading and class discussion of Atwood's story. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a formative assessment to gauge student comprehension before moving into essay writing or comparative literature analysis, or assign it as homework to reinforce key concepts from class discussions. The varied question types support differentiated instruction, with basic comprehension questions scaffolding students toward more complex analytical thinking about literary devices and thematic interpretation. This quiz aligns with Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 and RL.11-12.1 for citing textual evidence, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 and RL.11-12.2 for determining themes, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 and RL.11-12.4 for analyzing figurative language, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5 and RL.11-12.5 for analyzing text structure. The assessment effectively prepares students for the type of close reading and analytical thinking required in Advanced Placement Literature courses and college-level literary analysis.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
10 sec • 1 pt
In section 1, we are introduced to the main character, who used to be a________ in a previous life.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
In section 2, the narrator shares some nightmares that she has about her previous life. Which one is NOT a dream that s/he recalls?
S/he is being attacked by a human who is trying to reach him/her up in the ceiling of a cottage.
S/he eats toxic waste near home and gets paralyzed and dies.
S/he is flying back to its cave/home but it is sealed up.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
In section 3, the narrator shares the "clues" that led her/him to believe about his/her previous life. Which one is NOT one of the clues?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
In section 4, the reader learns about a role that his/her previous life form was almost given. What was it?
become test subjects in science labs to determine the legitimacy of vampire theories
pest ridders in farms (brought in to eat bugs)
weapons in war with incendiary devices
purchased in large amounts to bring into Halloween parks
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CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
The narrator feels more comfortable as a human than as s/he did in his/her previous life form.
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.7
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
In the final section, the narrator is praying for protection from what "evil"?
disease
canines
drought
humans
Tags
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The implied conflict throughout the story is between...
the narrator and the reader.
those who believe in reincarnation and those who don't.
what the bat thinks and what the bat feels.
people's misconceptions about bats and the truth.
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CCSS.RL.2.10
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.2.3
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.4.4
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